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Effects of removal...
There are 2,598,960 possible combinations of hands from a 52 card deck.
What would the effect be if one of the programmers who wrote the original RNG had been a bit naughty and had written in a couple of lines of code that randomly removed one of the 52 values before dealing. Alternatively, a couple of lines of code could be included that would send a card at random to the bottom of the deck where of course it wouldn't take part in the game. Same effect.
So say the 7d was removed . . .
The chances of hitting quad 7s on the flop would go from 407-1 or 19,599-1 to zero.
The chances of pocket 7s improving to a set would halve.
The chances of any straight requiring a 7 to complete would reduce by 25%
The chances of achieving diamond flush would reduce by 1/13 or 7.7%
The chances of hitting any straight flush requiring 7d would reduce to zero
Yada yada yada . . . .
Taking this thought a step further, how would it affect the game, if only a 10,J,Q,K or A was randomly removed each hand? The value of the remaining 2-9s would increase, as would the probability of hands winning that contained these cards.
Thoughts?
What would the effect be if one of the programmers who wrote the original RNG had been a bit naughty and had written in a couple of lines of code that randomly removed one of the 52 values before dealing. Alternatively, a couple of lines of code could be included that would send a card at random to the bottom of the deck where of course it wouldn't take part in the game. Same effect.
So say the 7d was removed . . .
The chances of hitting quad 7s on the flop would go from 407-1 or 19,599-1 to zero.
The chances of pocket 7s improving to a set would halve.
The chances of any straight requiring a 7 to complete would reduce by 25%
The chances of achieving diamond flush would reduce by 1/13 or 7.7%
The chances of hitting any straight flush requiring 7d would reduce to zero
Yada yada yada . . . .
Taking this thought a step further, how would it affect the game, if only a 10,J,Q,K or A was randomly removed each hand? The value of the remaining 2-9s would increase, as would the probability of hands winning that contained these cards.
Thoughts?
Comments
then the cards are not shuffled again until next hand as far as i know.
so the board will not be affected after initial shuffle.
dont know why a programmer would want to be naughty and muck up a piece of software that he has written/installed.
i imagine he would never work in the industry again?
I thought it was a pretty fair Area 51 question ?
An interesting OP but I can see no good reason for any site to even contemplate this, for a number of reasons.
1. Any cards removed from the deck would throw up anomalies that would be traceable. The RNG outputs card sequences that are easily audited. Covering up the anomalies would be a massive undertaking. The RNG is tested and certified by independent auditors and they would have no reason to falsify their findings.
2. The second and most important reason is that there is no reason I can think of that benefits the poker site. There is no gain in them preventing players from making hands. It actually contradicts all the reasons for any site to consider an adjustment to the random selection and delivery of cards.
3. If the site or sites had a wish list of things they could change this would certainly not be one of them. The goals of any site are the same:
To retain existing members and attract new members to the site.
To have an efficient site in order to maximise rake.
To have successful players.
None of the above are achieved by removing cards from the deal/deck.